Practical, cheap, and general protocol that uses iron for olefin isomerization could be used in fine chemical or pharmaceutical synthesis

Complicated trifluoromethylations could be a thing of the past with new procedure that is simple, safe and done at room temperature

An overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

New understanding of carbon catalyst surface could aid development of commercial catalyst for oxidative dehydrogenation of hydrocarbons

The Biginelli dihydropyrimidine synthesis is a very important and old multicomponent reaction—so why has its creator been forgotten?

The shortest synthesis of biologically interesting bryostatin 7 uses a C—C bond forming hydrogenation

First boron-containing allenylidene-like complexes display reactivity not predicted by DFT calculations

Over 100 of world's top chemists have written to the UK Prime Minister to warn of impacts of proposed cuts in research funding

Hanno Wild discusses how the future of the pharma industry will depend on organic chemistry

Peter Seeberger, Director of the Max-Plank Institute, Potsdam, Germany, receives prize for work on carbohydrates